State v. Wyrick (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-022-18, 9 pp.) (Philip Berger Jr., J.) Appealed from Mecklenburg County Superior Court (Jesse Caldwell, J.) N.C. App. Holding: On direct examination, defendant recounted in some detail, his supposedly consensual sexual encounter with two ...

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State v. Allbrooks (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-360-17, 8 pp.) (Donna Stroud, J.) Appealed from Moore County Superior Court (James Webb, J.) N.C. App. Holding: An eyewitness’s out-of-court statement and trial testimony agreed that defendant approached an apartment, the victim told ...

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State v. Harris (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-364-17, 16 pp.) (Valerie Zachary, J.) Appealed from Lenoir County Superior Court (Charles Henry, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Defendant’s motion in limine requested that the trial court either bar any reference to the word ...

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State v. Spinks (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-350-17, 29 pp.) (John Tyson, J.) (Donna Stroud, J., concurring) Appealed from Guilford County Superior Court (Richard Doughton, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Despite differences in the victims’ ages and the offenses defendant committed against ...

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State v. Jones (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-336-17, 13 pp.) (Valerie Zachary, J.) Appealed from Guilford County Superior Court (R. Stuart Albright, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Even though a Forsyth County jury acquitted defendant of obtaining property by false pretenses after ...

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U.S. v. Torrez (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-178-17, 91 pp.) (Thacker, J.) No. 14-1, Aug. 28, 2017; USDC at Alexandria, Va. (O’Grady, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: A 4th Circuit panel upholds defendant’s conviction for first-degree murder in the 2009 killing of ...

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Patton v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority (Lawyers Weekly No. 012-125-17, 30 pp.) (Robert Hunter Jr., J.) Appealed from Mecklenburg County Superior Court (Hugh Lewis, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Where plaintiff’s witnesses’ testimony went beyond what discovery had that they would ...

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In re Estate of Meetze (Lawyers Weekly No. 012-114-17, 7 pp.) (Lucy Inman, J.) Appealed from Wilson County Superior Court (Reuben Young, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Regardless of whether petitioner’s 1997 South Carolina marriage certificate was properly admitted as ...

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State v. Moore (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-217-17, 41 pp.) (Valerie Zachary, J.) Appealed from Orange County Superior Court (R. Allen Baddour Jr., J.) N.C. App. Holding: Since the state failed to lay a foundation for admission of a cellphone recording ...

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State v. Thompson (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-191-17, 14 pp.) (Hunter Murphy, J.) Appealed from Pitt County Superior Court (Marvin Blount III, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Defense counsel referred to a Facebook post in order to challenge the victim’s credibility; however, ...

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